Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Life
isn’t so much about calculating the risk, but accepting the risk and doing it
anyway.

Life
should not be lived within the safety of comfort zones or neutral states of
behaving. This mental conditioning causes restrictive boundaries and
indifferent perspectives, where we are neither thinkers or creators. If we are
not prepared to take a risk or make a mistake, we compromise the ability to
think divergently and act creatively!

Take
the butterfly for instance, its struggle is necessary to its survival. Help it escape
its cocoon and the butterfly will live out its days deformed, unable to
experience the exhilaration of flying free. It is in the struggle
that the butterfly finds its strength.
After its dark days inside the cocoon, the butterfly has this one moment
to accept its destiny, this one final moment to live beyond its restrictions.
To fail to push through in this pivotal moment will impact the butterfly
forever. It will live out its existence crawling in a world where it was destined for something greater. It must gather its energy and exert itself completely and
wholeheartedly at the crucial moment. The butterfly must squeeze its frail body
out of its tiny confined space. It will emerge withered and worn, but then
it begins to extend and expand its full capacity … the butterfly will spread
its wings and fly.

We shouldn’t be frightened of thinking
differently or making mistakes … or afraid of picking ourselves up once again after loss and adversity.
It is in these exact places that our biggest battles are won. Comfort zones need to be pushed, boundaries
overstepped and our thinking stretched beyond its capacity. True ingenuity is discovered
in strenuous effort and enterprise.

So go right ahead and think expansively, dream
magnanimously and live audaciously.

The gift of life requires us to live devotedly
and passionately in the realm of remarkable resolve.